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Mandy Johnston

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Mandy Johnston: Forced FF-FG marriage will only hold if grown-ups step up and take control

10.11.2025 6

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Mandy Johnston: Forty-day farce leaves eternal leader Martin eyeing his own demise

12.10.2025 8

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Mandy Johnston: Our fixation on perfection has given us the presidential candidates we deserve

27.09.2025 10

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Mandy Johnston: Running to the Park, running from reality – Budget 2026 and the Áras race

14.09.2025 10

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Mandy Johnston: Race to be president is utterly mad with little sense on show

01.09.2025 10

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Mandy Johnston: Like knotweed, Green policies now embedded in political system

17.08.2025 7

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Mandy Johnston: Why Ireland badly needs a Doge with a razor-sharp scalpel to cut state waste

16.06.2025 10

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Mandy Johnston: McDonagh latest victim of Ireland’s housing Bermuda triangle

Holding out for a hero is pointless: what Irish housing needs is not a ‘czar’ but a coalition of unglamorous geniuses who know how to get it done

04.05.2025 7

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Mandy Johnston: Dangerous disconnect emerging between business and politics

Many Irish and international business leaders increasingly see the political system not as a space to thrive, but as something to endure

22.04.2025 8

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Mandy Johnston: Dangerous disconnect emerging between business and politics

Many Irish and international business leaders increasingly see the political system not as a space to thrive, but as something to endure

20.04.2025 10

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Mandy Johnston: Why we need real political muscle in Washington DC

Britain understands this dynamic and sent Peter Mandelson, a shrewd political strategist, and a former EU commissioner with deep institutional...

06.04.2025 10

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Mandy Johnston: ‘It was like that when I got here’ is not a credible communications strategy for wayward ministers

On taking office, this government did not promise a revolution but competence, yet this has sadly been invisible in recent weeks

30.03.2025 8

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Mandy Johnston: Visit to Oval Office will be high stakes, high octane and high risk all at once

I was one of just five Irish officials granted access to the most powerful office in the world when I travelled with Bertie Ahern

09.03.2025 7

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Mandy Johnston: Harris’ desperate struggle for parity may prove costly for Fine Gael

From the get-go, the Taoiseach struggled to assert control over the campaign narrative in contrast to Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin

29.11.2024 4

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Mandy Johnston: Sinn Féin air war appears lost as Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil choke debate

While their ground campaign may yet yield different results, Mary Lou McDonald’s party’s decision to hold off on launching their manifesto until...

24.11.2024 5

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Mandy Johnston: Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil sniping could well let Sinn Féin in through the gap

Harris’s “New Energy” promised a fresh approach, but instead, it has delivered a jittery, scattered tone that’s already starting to grate

17.11.2024 3

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Mandy Johnston: Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael begin the uneasy waltz to another coalition

The election result will not only determine which party takes the dominant role, but will shape the future of Irish politics

08.11.2024 4

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Mandy Johnston: Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael begin the uneasy waltz to another coalition

The election result will not only determine which party takes the dominant role, but will shape the future of Irish politics

08.11.2024 5

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